My friend Melissa Mines and I presented at the GSMI Social Media Strategies Summit. As usual, when I visit San Francisco in September, I forgot that the climate can reach Ice Station Zebra conditions. Melissa, sporting a sleeveless blouse on the way to dinner in Union Square, hypothesized that most tourists also don’t pack appropriately, forgetting about the temp drop and remedying their mistake by purchasing a cheap sweatshirt from the first street vendor they can find. Which explains the following:
The next day at the conference, when our teeth stopped chattering, we presented a few case studies on Cisco’s work in the B2B social media space. In the Service Provider Marketing group, we have a relatively small, technical audience. I love the fact that we strive to balance the engineering content with some of the funny. Our presentation is below.
Like everyone one of my trips to San Francisco, I came home wishing I could have stayed longer, and sporting a new “Escape From Alcatraz” hoodie.
Our proposed panel has made it through the first round of the SXSW Interactive selections, and now we need your vote to make it to the show. Scott Teems, SXSW Film Festival winning director for THAT EVENING SUN and I (contributor to SNL, Letterman, Conan, The Onion) will discuss a few of our corporate YouTube video hits that earned recognition from The New York Times and Comedy Central, as well as lessons learned from near “fireable offenses.” Bestselling author David Meerman Scott (New Rules of Marketing & PR, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead) will join us.
We’d appreciate your vote for our panel (voting ends 11:59 CDT Friday, August 27.) It takes a minute to register for an account, then click here [note: the panelpicker page doesn't allow for listing of all panelists, hence the above post]
When you’re at Harvard, you have to make smart decisions, and mine was to never again order a cheeseburger with barbecue sauce. I arrived at that decision after eating at Mr. Bartley’s, a venue the Boston Herald describes as “Boston’s best burger, in cheerfully, post-hippie dorm surroundings.” I got into the barbecue sauce-on-cheeseburger habit back in my high school days, ordering the Rojo Burger at Chili’s. I thought it was a classy move, but not everyone agreed, including my prom date. (btw, “Rojo” is the Spanish word for “impossible to get out of Taffeta”).
This place has a fun student vibe, and I kept thinking I’d see Will Hunting sitting in the corner solving word problems.
I was on campus to speak about using comedy in social media to help put a face on the corporation. Below is a short clip of my PowerPoint disaster. And check our this review of Bartley’s from Billy Idol:
